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Contemporary Issues in International Political Economy Edited by fu-lai tony yu diana s. kwan Contemporary Issues in International Political Economy Fu-Lai Tony Yu • Diana S. Kwan Editors Contemporary Issues in International Political Economy Editors Fu-Lai Tony Yu Diana S. Kwan Hong Kong Shue Yan University The Chinese University of Hong Kong North Point, Hong Kong Shatin, Hong Kong ISBN 978-981-13-6461-7 ISBN 978-981-13-6462-4 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6462-4 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019 This work is subject to copyright. 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Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institu- tional affiliations. This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. The registered company address is: 152 Beach Road, #21- 01/04 Gateway East, Singapore 189721, Singapore A cknowledgements Chapter 7 is modified from Yu, Fu-Lai Tony and Kwan, Diana S. (2008) “Social Construction of National Identity: Taiwanese versus Chinese Consciousness”, Social Identities, volume 14(1/January), pp.33–52. Chapter 8 is adopted from Yu, Fu-Lai Tony (2017) “Neo-Mercantilist Policy and China’s Rise as a Global Power”, Contemporary Chinese Political Economy and Strategic Relations: An International Journal, volume 3(3/December), pp.1043–1073. v c ontents Part I Political and Religious Conflicts in the Middle East 1 1 Religious Conflicts in the Middle East: Christianity Versus Islam and Sunni Versus Shiite 3 Diana S. Kwan and Fu-Lai Tony Yu 2 An Iran Nuclear Deal Without the United States? Chinese, European, and Russian Interests and Options After the US Withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action 35 Moritz Pieper 3 Islam and Nationalism with Special Reference to the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan 55 Yoshiyuki Kitazawa 4 Origins of the Property Rights of the “Holy” Land and Religious Conflicts in Jerusalem 75 Rita Yi-Man Li 5 Who Wants to Talk to Terrorists? 91 Peter J. Phillips vii viii CONTENTS Part II Tensions in East Asia 111 6 The North Korean Crisis: Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and the Threat of Nuclear War 113 Richard W. Mansbach and Kirsten L. Taylor 7 Interpreting the Taiwan Strait Conflict: Taiwanese Versus Chinese Consciousness 149 Fu-Lai Tony Yu and Diana S. Kwan 8 Neo-Mercantilist Policy and China’s Rise as a Global Power 175 Fu-Lai Tony Yu 9 China’s Belt-Road Initiative: The Political Economy of Coordinated Coalitional Cooperation 197 David W. K. Yeung and Aloysius W. C. Lui Part III Political, Social and Environmental Challenges to Human Progress 227 10 Globalization and Populism 229 Oscar Bajo-Rubio and Ho-Don Yan 11 Brexit and the Future of the European Union 253 Edward Gotham 12 Same-Sex Marriage in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan: Ideologies, Spaces and Developments 289 Joseph M. K. Cho and Lucetta Y. L. Kam CONTENTS ix 13 Global Warming, Climate Change and World Environmental Degradation 307 Edward C. H. Tang Part IV The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Its Threats 331 14 The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Development of Artificial Intelligence 333 Simon Chien-Yuan Chen and Ming-Chan Shen 15 How Realistic Is a Sustainable World? 347 Gunter Pauli 16 Cryptocurrencies: The Future of Finance? 359 Claire Wilson 17 The Role of Bitcoin in the Monetary System: Its Development and the Possible Future 395 Aries Kin Ming Wong Epilogue: Towards a Happier Global Village or the World War III? 413 Index 417 c ontributors Oscar Bajo-Rubio Department of Economics, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Simon Chien-Yuan Chen Department of Land Management, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China Joseph M. K. Cho The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong Edward Gotham Department of Economics, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China Lucetta Y. L. Kam Department of Humanities and Creative Writing, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon, Hong Kong Yoshiyuki Kitazawa Department of International Relations, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Kyoto Sangyo University, Kyoto, Japan Diana S. Kwan Office of Medical Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong Rita Yi-Man Li Department of Economics and Finance, Hong Kong Shue Yan University, North Point, Hong Kong Aloysius W. C. Lui SRS Consortium for Advanced Study, Hong Kong Shue Yan University, North Point, Hong Kong Richard W. Mansbach Department of Political Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA xi xii CONTRIBUTORS Gunter Pauli Shaw College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong Peter J. Phillips School of Commerce, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia Moritz Pieper School of Arts and Media, University of Salford, Manchester, UK Ming-Chan Shen Center of Public Policy Analysis, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China Edward C. H. Tang Department of Economics and Finance, Hong Kong Shue Yan University, North Point, Hong Kong Kirsten L. Taylor Department of Government and International Studies, Berry College, Mount Berry, GA, USA Claire Wilson Department of Law and Business, Hong Kong Shue Yan University, North Point, Hong Kong Aries Kin Ming Wong Department of Economics, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon, Hong Kong Ho-Don Yan Department of Economics, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China David W. K. Yeung Department of Business Administration, Hong Kong Shue Yan University, North Point, Hong Kong Fu-Lai Tony Yu Department of Economics and Finance, Hong Kong Shue Yan University, North Point, Hong Kong